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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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2. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






3. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






4. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






5. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






6. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






7. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






8. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






9. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






10. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






11. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






12. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






13. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






14. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






15. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






16. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






17. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






18. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






19. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






20. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






21. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






22. A character struggles against some outside force.






23. Broken down acts.






24. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






25. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






26. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






27. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






28. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






29. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






30. The selection of words in a literary work.






31. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






32. What a story or play is about.






33. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






34. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






35. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






36. The organizational form of a literary work.






37. The person who 'tells' the story.






38. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






39. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






40. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






41. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






42. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






43. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






44. The dictionary meaning of a word.






45. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






46. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






47. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






48. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






49. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






50. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.